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{PDF} Sweet Thursday Kindle SWEET THURSDAY PDF, EPUB, EBOOK John Steinbeck | 272 pages | 30 Nov 2000 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780141185521 | English | London, United Kingdom Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row #2) by John Steinbeck For All We Know Gina I Look At You I Was There I'll Never Be Lonely Again Laurie, My Love Cheeeek that out dude. Lead RIFFs:. Bad selection. Save Cancel. Really delete this comment? Yes No. All The Sad Young Men. Among The First To Know. Call Me. Chances Are. Christmas Eve. Christmas In the City of the Angels. Christmas Is…. For takeaways please use our website and where possible as click and collect means we can have your order ready for you. We are using Deliveroo if you cant come and collect. Friday-Sunday we open from 10am for brunch or for a juice and a coffee through the hatch. Please come and see us. Sweet Thursday team. Sweet Thursday is a novel by John Steinbeck. Since the death of its original owner Dora, the local brothel , The Bear Flag Restaurant, is now being run by Dora's older sister Fauna, a former mission worker previously known as Flora. Under Fauna, the girls of the Bear Flag study etiquette and posture with the goal of joining Fauna's list of "gold stars," former employees of the Bear Flag who have married and left their employ there. As Doc tries to rebuild his neglected business, the latest Bear Flag resident Suzy is causing trouble. Fauna knows Suzy isn't cut out to be a working girl, but her soft heart always causes her to fall for a hard luck story. Deciding to make Suzy one of her gold star girls, Fauna plots to throw Suzy into the arms of an unwitting Doc and enlists the aid of Mack and the Boys. Choosing to live alone, Suzy moves into an empty boiler in a vacant lot and takes a job at the local diner, the Golden Poppy. Sweet Thursday Summary | SuperSummary It was on a sweet Thursday Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday all had passed Came the day I'd waited for at last And you were there, with love to spare. Making it a sweet Thursday Not like any other day I'd known Giving me a dream to call my own A dream that you are sharing too. People meet by some design Prearranged by laws divine Yet who is there who can define Just what mystic fate combined to make you mine. Johnny Mathis Lyrics provided by SongLyrics. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles CSS. This is just a preview! Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. Make sure your selection starts and ends within the same node. All News Daily Roundup. Album Reviews Song Reviews. Song Lyrics. Review: RIFF-it. RIFF-it good. Add Comment. All The Sad Young Men 5. Among The First To Know 7. Call Me 8. Chances Are 9. Christmas Eve Christmas In the City of the Angels Christmas Is… Darling Lilli Every Step Of The Way Evie For All We Know Gina I Look At You I Was There Steinbeck gives Sweet Thursday a romance plot between the affable Doc and the half- hearted prostitute Suzy. And I just did not care at all. It was more fun reading about frogs in the first book. Fardo Oct 15, Sequel to 'Cannery Row' this may be, but this is an entirely different book that we're dealing with. What I missed most in 'Sweet Thursday' that had been present in 'Cannery Row' were the beautiful passages of nature writing. We still have Doc visiting the tidal fields, but there's no magic anymore. Aside from such lyrical musings on the perfect days of the title, there's nothing like it to be found. Instead of the place we get the people; shoddy, post-war versions of people. OK, so that may come off as a bit harsh, I did enjoy this book. I enjoyed it and liked it in the same manner that I enjoy certain romantic comedies because that is what this is , they pass the time, there are cute scenes and simple misunderstandings, but there isn't much to sink your teeth into. I just could not mesh the versions of Doc or Hazel here into the versions present here. The new characters, Joseph and Mary Rivas one person , Fauna, and Suzy get great set-ups, but there isn't enough to build them up. Steinbeck was a more than capable writer, I just don't see how such a perfect, accidental micro-universe like 'Cannery Row' needed a sequel at all. My advice is to treat this as a standalone Steinbeck novel that happens to have a town of the same name and some similar characters within it. You'll like it better. And damn it, I miss my kitty tea parties with Mrs. DanielSTJ Dec 18, After I fell in love with Steinbeck's Cannery Row about a year ago and actually went to visit Monterey shortly after finishing the book, it was a given for me to get to the sequel, which is Sweet Thursday. Western Biological Laboratories has not been run to Doc's liking and he finds it devoid of the life he had left it with. He tries to reestablish his lab and to get to work again, but somehow he is not satisfied anymore. Something in his life is missing and he cannot really put the finger on what it is. This is where Mack and the other boys from the Palace Flophouse come in. They are some of the many characters from the prequel to make a reappearance. The boys still want Doc to be happy since Doc is the glue that holds Cannery Row together. Now that he is back they believe the Row can be returned to its former glory. With the canneries closed the Row is just not the same anymore. Soon, Doc meets a new inhabitant of Cannery Row, Suzy. Their relationship, however, has its ups and downs. Both do not seem to get close enough to each other although they clearly like each other a lot. While Doc regards Suzy as the missing puzzle piece in his life at first, things soon change and he drowns himself in work. Doc wants to write and publish a paper but he never gets the work done as there is some internal barrier keeping him from doing the work he has once loved so much. So as not to spoil the ending I will leave it up to you to find out what happens to Suzy and Doc in the end. What I liked most about this novel are Steinbeck's superb writing skills. The interplay of the characters and the depiction of life on Cannery Row are simply outstanding. Steinbeck has a perfect grasp of which elements of the story to reveal and which to leave up to the readers' imagination. In the prologue to the novel as in the novel itself Steinbeck lets characters muse about the art of writing and what an author should do so as to tell an interesting story. The criteria for a good book presented in the prologue are each addressed in the story itself, for example giving the chapters a headline, having more dialogue or not telling the readers everything in description. Steinbeck plays with narrative techniques and the relation of showing and telling, however, when he inserts himself into the story at some points in order to describe and interpret actions for the reader, the very thing that was criticized in the prologue. That is why the novel spoke to me on more than one level. While the interplay of the characters make for a fascinating picture of life on Cannery Row, the meta level of how to write a story is something that I enjoyed very much as well. While it might be possible to read this novel without having read the prequel, I would advise to read Cannery Row first before turning to Sweet Thursday as it adds a lot of background to the story and the characters. I probably just subtracted half a star because I loved Cannery Row even more. There are a few bits of cringingly racist dialogue that reflect the times in which the story took place, but overall I found it entertaining and sometimes howlingly funny. I found in reading the most familiar parts, the voice of John Huston narrating in my head, which was very pleasant indeed. I'd still recommend reading Cannery Row first, since the second book leans on it a little, at least in the beginning. An edition of this book was published by Penguin Australia. An edition of this book was published by Recorded Books. Home Groups Talk More Zeitgeist. I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Series: Cannery Row 2. Members Reviews Popularity Average rating Mentions 2, 38 4, 3. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears, from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter. National Book Award Finalists - Fiction No current Talk conversations about this book. I hate to say it, but this was a little bit boring.
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